Coca-Cola has registered its alcohol brands in Russia

In grade 33, MKTU (alcohol), Rospatent granted the company exclusive rights to the merchants Sprite and Coca-Cola Creations. The same signals, as well as the names Fanta, Bonaqua +, Minute Maid, Power Ade and Coke Studio, were recorded in 32 μtu (non -alcoholic beverages). All requests were submitted to early 2024 and were approved at the end of the past, earlier this year.

• Coca-Cola is involved in alcohol production. According to the Alcoext.ru publication, in 2024 the company agreed with Bacardi in the launch of cocktails with rum and soft drinks. In 2025, drinks were planned to be supplied to the EU and Mexico. In February 2024, the company announced the launch of Cocktails Ready -Made Absolut and Sprite for deliveries to the United Kingdom. In 2023, Coca-Cola bought a brand of vodka Finland.
• In February 2022, Coca-Cola presented in the United States and Europe a limited series of service stations as part of the Coca-Cola Creations Unit and Unit. The unit developed, for example, Coca-Cola Starlight and sent this drink to space.

The lawyer of Coca-Cola, Ekaterina Furmanova, refused to comment on the manufacturer’s manufacturer plans in Russia.

“We really represent the interests of the Coca-Cola company in Russia, but, according to the client’s global approach, the press comments are not provided,” said Furmanova RB.RU.

• In March 2022, Coca-Cola announced the suspension of work in Russia, and in June the company announced the cessation of sales and the production of its drinks in the Russian Federation.
• After that, the number of Coca-Cola analogues in Russia increased by 10%. At the end of July 2022, according to Nielseniq’s estimates, in stores you can find a participation of 186 brands. The most relevant information has not yet appeared.
• At the end of August, the founder of Teremka, Mikhail Goncharov, said the Russian Coca-Cola HBC division, renamed multon partners, produces popular soft drinks under the new name: the good tail.

The head of “intellectual property” Ab Kiap, Patent Lawyer, Eldar Guliyev, believes that the registration of registered trademarks in relation to alcoholic beverages is associated with the possible exit of Coca-Cola to the alcohol market in Russia. However, this registry does not indicate the time to return the company and can be considered as a long -term planning, added the lawyer.

In addition, such commercial brands are an additional tool to avoid its use and unscrupulous copy of third parties, Guliev concluded.

The legal science candidate, the patent lawyer of the intellectual property agency “Buteko and Partners”, Svetlana Buteko, knows that Coca-Cola has many brands registered in Russia, including the one that has been protecting the label in the regime of a regime of a Stroke known since 1996.

According to Buteko, a well-known sign, even, as in the case of Coca-Cola, protected only for the “non-alcoholic drinks” section, allows the head of copyright to defend themselves from unauthorized use in heterogeneous products, if such use It is associated with consumers with the head of copyright and can violate it in the infraction interests.

The expert clarified that ordinary trademarks can only be protected in relation to counterfeit products that are contained in the registration list or products that are uniform (which have the same composition or purpose, a common circle of consumers, such as sweets and chocolate) .